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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Hang Zhang, Nepean, CA;
Peiying Zhu, Kanata, CA;
Mo-Han Fong, L'Orignal, CA;
Wen Tong, Ottawa, CA;
Gamini Senarath, Nepean, CA;
Derek Yu, Kanata, CA;
David Steer, Nepean, CA;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Security in wireless communication networks that employ relay stations to facilitate communications between base stations and mobile stations is enhanced. In one embodiment, resource information provided to one or more relay stations from a base station or another relay station is encrypted prior to being delivered to the one or more relay stations. Only authorized relay stations are allocated an appropriate key necessary to decrypt the resource information. As such, only appropriate relay stations are able to access and use the resource information to effect communications directly or indirectly between the base stations and the mobile stations. In certain embodiments, the resource information is delivered between the various base and relay stations using either unicast or multicast delivery techniques.